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Summary: Bravo!! What a great reference guide
Review: Clear explanations, numerous examples, and Jennifer writes in a fashion that is understandable and useful to all, from beginners to experts. Even my room-mate, who is a complete idiot, was able to grasp the material.Good Job, Jenn
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Summary: This book is not about design.
Review: I think it is appalling that this book got such rave reviews. ALthough it is a good HTML (and more reference), it misses the point of good web design - you can know all the technique, but if your pages don't look good, then you're missing the boat (hence the word, _design_). The book does nothing for building a sense of web aesthetic into the reader. Yes, to some extent, good web design is subjective and designing for the web is a new paradigm. But now that the web is no longer entirely new and there have been some lessons learned in design, good designers know what works and what doesn't, and this book did not tell me that stuff the way some other books did. Let's not get wooed solely by the O'Reilly name. Although they treat technical aspects expectecly well, this book fails to instruct on the other half of good web design, namely, making pages that are intuitive, well-designed, and graphically superb.
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Summary: Please don't buy this book!
Review: As a web design consultant, I've always maintained a competitive edge by knowing a ton of coding tricks and tips of the trade. These "secrets" have kept me in the field for a long time. Now along comes this book. With it's tricks, tips, and trade "secrets" all published for everyone to see. Oh no! Now I'm out of a job. Great. Thanks a lot, Jennifer. (This was written with two big heaps of sarcasm. The number of stars I give show how I really feel about this book.)
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Summary: It's like having an experienced web guru sitting next to you
Review: I wish that I had this book 6 months ago. More than a "here are the tags, this is what they do" reference, Niederst shows you the solutions to all of the oddball problems that you would otherwise only stumble upon after years of experience. I am a professional webmaster, and people are always asking me to recommend books on building web pages. This is the first one that I've actually recommended. The information in this book is more valuable than books I've seen that cost three times as much.
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Summary: THE best quick ref in the world for anyone in Web Design
Review: I thought that I had all the reference material I needed... until I saw this book. Complete, concise, and honest. This is indespensible and sits on my desk instead of on my bookshelf (right along with Information Architecture)
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Summary: Covers every tag in HTML 4.0 tag - a GREAT reference
Review: This book covers every aspect of creating a web page! It even has every tag in HTML 4.0 specification and it's compatability with different browsers on different OSs. CSS, DHTML, JavaScript - it's all there!
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Summary: An essential for anyone designing web pages
Review: Easy too follow and yet very thorough in its treatment of all aspects of web design. Even those familiar with HTML should find some tricks they don't usually use. It is probably the one book anyone doing web design should own.
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Summary: Stuffed full of useful info
Review: Excellent up to date book (Feb-99), stuffed full of facts. An actually useful reference book, well worth the Amazon price. Complements "HTML The Def Guide" quite well.
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Summary: An amazing resource
Review: This is a great resource, especially for people that have been writing HTML for a while. Not only does this book list all of the usual useful stuff (web-safe color codes, special character codes, the HTML 4.0 tags, etc.)it has so much practical information I've never seen anywhere else. I've only had this book since yesterday and I've probably exclaimed "I didn't know THAT!" 10 times already. The section on tables alone is worth the price of the book.
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Summary: No "wet glass" rings on this one!
Review: This book is a webmaster's best friend. The browser compatibility charts are alone worth the cost. I doubt this one will get lent out. Current up through MSIE version 5 and all of Netscape's offerings.
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